Rachel Neiman

Rachel Neiman

Rachel Neiman is an experienced media professional whose journalism credits include ISRAEL21c, Globes Online, The Jerusalem Post and LINK magazine. She has served as marketing communications director at several Israeli innovation-based startups. Rachel attributes her vast knowledge of Israeli nostalgia to her Palmach-generation folk-singer mother and Jewish historian father, as well as her own lifelong obsession with all things pop culture.

The Russian hospital also housed a funeral home and morgue, which may have given rise to local rumors that it was haunted. Credit: Matson Archive, Library of Congress via Wikipedia

October 31 2021, 9:12 am

7 spooky sites in Jerusalem

Elections 1977 – Likud posters] In 1977, Menahem Begin led an election upset as Israel’s first non-Labor prime minister. Credit: GPO

March 11 2021, 12:05 pm

A surprising chronicle of 20 Israeli election firsts

Slippers being manufactured at the Hamgaper factory in 1946. Photo: GPO

January 10 2021, 8:10 am

If it’s wintertime, Israelis will be in slippers

British soldiers convalescing at the Scots Mission Hospital, Tiberias. Credit: Matson Photograph Collection/US Library of Congress

March 23 2020, 10:39 am

Pandemics and plagues in the Holy Land

This was taken in January 1970, a few weeks after the African Hebrew Israelite community arrived in Dimona. Photo by IPPA staff, courtesy of the Dan Hadani Archive, Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, National Library of Israel

March 10 2020, 7:00 am

From slavery to Eurovision… African Hebrew Israelites mark 50 years in Israel

The sturdy but heavy wooden ballot boxes used in the 1951 Knesset elections continued in use for over twenty years. Courtesy of GPO

February 27 2020, 8:20 am

Third time in a year, and Israeli voters are still boxed in

Tel Aviv Adloyada Purim Parade, 1959. Photo courtesy of GPO

February 15 2020, 8:00 am

How Tel Aviv became party central, thanks to Purim

Movie posters from low-budget foreign flicks shot in Israel. Images: Wikipedia

February 12 2020, 7:24 am

How Israel became B-movie central

Schoolchildren plant trees on Tu B’Shvat in the Haifa suburb of Kiryat Yam, 1962. Image: Kiryat Yam Regional Library

January 27 2020, 7:00 am

9 delightful Tu B’Shvat photos from old and new Israel

Bat Yam police in the seaside city of Bat Yam searching for trapped residents in need of rescuing. Credit: GPO

January 13 2020, 8:21 am

Israel under water